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2016 Mexican 1000
Robby Gordon has decided to race in the 2016 Mexican 1000. He will race his buggy in the Pro Unlimited Class. Gordon starts 12th.
Stage 1 begins today.
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Permalink Reply by mj on
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It was an awesome rally and the webcast footage was really cool , the did a tremendous job .
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Permalink Reply by WJM on
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Same core crew that does the great King of Hammers live coverage but with a shoestring budget (<$10K). The idea was to prove, as a technical concept, that live point to point coverage is not only possible but very doable. They knocked it out of the park. I hope Roger Norman and Casey Folks were paying attention because they have no excuses now.
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Permalink Reply by Mike Kenyon on
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and the ASO,IMO. It really was that ground breaking. Nobody was an excuse now, nobody!
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Permalink Reply by Chupakabras on
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Rumors, he might defend his title at 2 MARES 2016,. hope he does,. he won that last year in the Gordini.
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Permalink Reply by Kevin Urie on
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Is this how he broke that CV joint? https://www.facebook.com/elcasinadiepueh/videos/1608762536108732/
That crazy truck turned right into him. Crazy pass in the first place, but what was that person in the truck thinking?
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Permalink Reply by timothy price on
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Baja Stripe I LOVE IT
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that could have been bad-bad
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Permalink Reply by J.R. Sands on
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I thought you weren't supposed to be on course, or should be paying attention. The guy driving the little truck was probably in a altered condition .... just sayin
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I'm not sure, during the live feed, there where locals on coarse , but unlike this guy in the middle of road, they where driving on the right side of the road and seemed very aware.
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Robby Gordon is very quick
One night, after a frivolous remark in the bar – which quickly snowballed into a strange series of events – I ended up in the position of navigating Robby Gordon on day three of the race.
Yes, that Robby Gordon. Off-road legend, creator of the awesome Stadium Super Trucks series, and someone who’s raced pretty much every form of four-wheeled vehicle possible.
Instead of racing his modern ‘Gordini’ Dakar truck, he brought along one of his 2003 Class 1 buggies. With a six-speed sequential ‘box from an Indy car, 24-inches of suspension travel at the front, 20 at the back and a 600hp pump-gas Corvette engine, it’s quite a different setup to a trophy truck. But, crucially, it only weighs 1,270kg – less than half of those top-tier lolloping beasts - making it incredibly nimble and good at scuttling over rock and silt beds.
Having broken a front axle on the first day, Robby was very relaxed and even offered me a drive as he wasn’t in a position to win. That changed as soon as we started picking off competitors one-by-one in the first few miles.
Being a Baja veteran, he’d done parts of the 232-mile stage from Loretto to La Paz before. This made my navigation – which had been reduced to flappy hand signals due to a comms failure – meaningless to begin with.
Instead of following the meandering GPS, Robby basically went as the crow flies regardless of what was in the way. The punishment the buggy could take was incredible. With 30,000 off-road miles on the clock, it’s an amazingly robust bit of kit.
And boy can Robby drive. His commitment and millimetric precision allowed him to wield the wobbly buggy and place it in positions I didn’t think possible. And with the ability to lock either side via a hydraulic diff, the thing turned on a dime – allowing us to make up time in the tight stuff while being able to max out at 120mph elsewhere. Remarkable for something that’s 14 years old.
With an average speed nudging 80mph, we won the first stage and were runners-up in the second. This resulted in an overall day win, and an experience I’ll never forget.
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